History ll Sample 1 Review
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In Lincoln's plan for reconstruction, what did a Confederate state need to do to qualify for readmission into the Union?
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Ten percent of the voting population needed to take an oath of allegiance before forming a new government.
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Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1866 extraordinary?
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It made discrimination in state laws illegal.
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Although Andrew Johnson had left the Democratic Party before becoming president, he seemed more a Democrat than a Republican as president because he
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advocated limitations on federal power.
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Who were the Redeemers in the South?
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Southern Democrats who wanted to restore white supremacy in the South
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Andrew Johnson was impeached on what charge?
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Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act.
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What problem plagued the Republican governments of the Reconstruction South?
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Corruption
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What was the outcome of Native Americans' settlement on reservations in the late nineteenth century?
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They came to depend on government assistance.
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What did the historian Frederick Jackson Turner argue about the importance of the western frontier in American history in 1893?
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The western frontier made the United States different from Europe.
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Which of the following terms best characterizes Virginia City, Nevada, and other mining centers in the late nineteenth century?
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Sprawling industrialized communities
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What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
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To decrease the Chinese population of the American West
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How did the invention of barbed wire revolutionize the cattle industry?
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The wire allowed ranchers to fence in their cattle.
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What were the \"chips\" that served as the most prevalent form of fuel used for cooking and heating in the plains in the latter half of the nineteenth century?
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Chunks of dried cattle and buffalo dung
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Which of the following describes the Gilded Age?
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An era marked by personal greed and a corrupt partnership between business and politics
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What was the main purpose of crude oil in the United States before the advent of the automobile?
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Lubrication and lighting in the form of kerosene
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Which of the following was true of Standard Oil in the 1890s?
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The company had employed both horizontal and vertical integration to control more than 90 percent of the oil business.
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Which of the following factors boosted nineteenth-century railroad construction in America significantly?
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Monetary aid and land grants from federal and state governments
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The Pendleton Act of 1883 established the Civil Service Commission and
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made it impossible to remove people in civil service jobs for political reasons.
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How did American women respond to the denial of their right to vote in the late nineteenth century?
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Women participated in the political process though the antilynching, suffrage, and temperance movements.
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President Grover Cleveland hoped to increase the nation's flagging gold reserves during the economic depression in the winter of 1894-95
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through making a deal with a private group of bankers, headed by J. P. Morgan, to purchase gold abroad and supply it to the government.
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The Greenback Labor Party believed that the government should issue paper currency based on
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the country's total wealth.
